This report describes how improving the efficiency of data storage, deduplication solutions has enabled organizations to cost-justify the increased use of disk for backup and recovery. However, the changing demands on IT storage infrastructures have begun to strain the capabilities of initial deduplication products. To meet these demands, a new generation of deduplication solutions is emerging which scale easily, offer improved performance and availability and simplify management and integration within the IT storage infrastructure. HP refers to this new generation as "Deduplication 2.0.

It is clear that we live in a land of the survival of the fittest. This same scenario is certainly not news to the CIO of any enterprise data center, especially in the data center with a mission-critical infrastructure.

As vendors abandon the UNIX market, IBM continues its commitment to AIX and POWER7 components on Power Systems. And with its recent architectural upgrades, it’s even redefining performance. Read the Clipper Group white paper and see how POWER7’s faster processors accelerate the delivery of applications and services, and improve the utilization of resources.

Many professionals in information security espouse the belief-and commitment to-"risk based" security management. In fact, according to the latest Ponemon Report on Risk Management, 77% of those surveyed claimed a commitment to it. Ironically, the analysis of the responses collected by the survey indicated that despite their stated intentions, most of the respondents and their organizations were not acting in ways that reflected this commitment.

Your company is a voracious consumer of bandwidth - perhaps a very large enterprise, a research lab, or a service or content provider of some description. Running on ultra high speed data links may blind you from seeing real issues arising.

Symantec Corporation and Ponemon Institute are pleased to present the 2013 Cost of Data Breach: Global Analysis, our eighth annual benchmark study concerning the cost of data breach incidents for companies located in nine countries. Since 2009, we have provided a consolidated report of the benchmark findings from all countries represented in the research. In this report, we present both the consolidated findings and country differences.

New Gartner research positions salesforce.com in the Leaders Quadrant for Sales Force Automation. Download the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report and find out what Gartner analysts have to say about Salesforce.

While mobile threats are still largely mischiefware and have not yet broken the device’s security model but instead more focused on for-pay texting scams or stealing personal information, the dangers are still rife. This white paper from BlueCoat examines the mobile threat landscape and the behavioral patterns of mobile users that make them most vulnerable to data loss, malicious applications, fraud and other mobile threats.

For IT managers, choosing the wrong vendor can lead to disruption, high costs, and the loss of confidence from within the business. Learn how to de-risk your vendor selections by aligning with market trends.

TeamQuest Director of Global Services Per Bauer explains how to manage services in relation to servers, storage, network, power and floor space. Understand costing data, incidents, business transaction volumes, and demand forecasts. Watch this short video to learn more about Optimization in a Box and how to quickly improve your ability to optimize business services today.

Digital voices are everywhere in a digital factory. In this brief, we’ll elaborate on the technology tools digital factories use for three common functions: asset management, production planning and materials replenishment.